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So how did your UK tour go with Your Demise and Letlive.? Any cool memories from the tour you would like to share with us? Excellent, thank you. It was great fun touring with such awesome bands and awesome people. had some great nights out together, one particular evening in Newcastle, the venue had a club night after with a big student night on, I somehow ended up dancing with all the YD boys on a podium on the stage, ended up being quite a ridiculous night but I won't go into details.
Also, We attended the Bristol Academy show and we were given leaflets which featured interviews with each band playing. This is something you rarely see at an alternative gig, and it was really cool. Can you tell us a bit about how this idea came about? It was for a couple of reasons, one, to give an insight into any of the bands if you didn't know anything about them and two, for us personally to give an in depth interview of questions that aren't the same old thing that's asked in most interviews
So, how have the new songs been going down live? Really well, it's always a bit nerve wracking the first few times you play a new song live but the reactions were immediate and very positive which is a good omen for the rest of the album.
How did you go about choosing 'Sssnakepit' as the first single from your new album, and at this point how would you say fans have reacted to the song? We wanted to make a strong impact and give an idea of what our new music is about. it's tough, unforgiving and won't give anyone the wrong impression about enter shikari. it's one of our most obvious blends of dance and rock and when we kick it live it really blows the roof off the venue.
The music video for Sssnakepit looked really great, can you tell us a bit about how it came together? We wanted to really show the two different sides to the song, the intro and outro drum 'n' bass sections, and the bulk of the track being hard hitting punk rock. so the best way to do it was literally have it set in 2 rooms, one being an underground dance club and the other being a rock venue with a sort of 'portal' between the two. we all love going to both events so to have them come together like this was a great statement and great fun working on.
How did you get to the album title 'A Flash Flood of Colour' and what does it mean to you as a band? How we normally find titles is by going through all the tracks and seeing which lyrics stand out as contenders and this album was no different. There were a few contenders but 'a flash flood of colour', from the song 'warm smiles', seemed to stand out as the most appropriate. We wanted a very big sounding title but also something very positive and forward thinking to follow the album.